THE METAL & MENTAL CHAINS (It’s Our Mindset)

Hello Africa! It’s business unusual. Black History Month is the time to tell ourselves some hard truths, not just listen to praise songs.

Mental chains or mental slavery! It’s the root cause for today’s crisis of leadership in Africa, for our culture of dependency & mediocrity, and for our beggar mentality.

It’s the reason we willingly allow others to exploit us to advance their own personal, political, ideological, theological, economic and racial agendas.

Mental chains. It’s we who allow others to chew our food for us and spit it into our mouths to swallow. Think about it!

Our mental chains are the reason we shamefully sell our own selves, our people, and our resources for the lies, flatteries, and cheap bribes of opportunists and adversaries who pretend to seek our interest. And it’s why we then stupidly & hypocritically claim we’re victims!

Our mental chains are the reason for the new slavery, colonization, and scramble for Africa.

It’s the reason we vilify our true heroes when they are alive, and then build monuments for them with the very stones we use to stone them to death!

Africa, we’re our own problem—whether on the continent or in the diaspora!

Let’s stop the denials, excuses, and blame games. Let’s quit the self-pity syndrome, the “they-did-this-to-me” or “I-have-suffered-this” excuses. Let’s start taking full responsibility for our destiny.

Our MENTAL chains must come off, just as much as the METAL chains of slavery and colonization.

We need mind liberation. Freedom to think, freedom to do, and freedom to be. Freedom from the mediocrity of sin to the excellence of mind renewal. “Be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Romans 12:2). “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).?

Africa, let’s unchain the Elephant! It’s our MINDSET! Africa must think! Africa must do! And Africa must be! Then we shall celebrate Black legacy, not just Black history.?

—Samuel Koranteng-Pipim

Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, PhD,?is a US-based Ghanaian author, inspirational speaker, leadership trainer, and advocate for youth empowerment. He is also an executive & personal growth coach. He was trained in engineering and systematic theology. Author of more than 25 books, he promotes excellence and “mind liberation” as the basis of transformational change. He currently directs EAGLESonline and its two Centers for Leadership Development (www.EAGLESonline.org.)?Dr. Pipim regularly publishes short inspirational thought nuggets "to inspire, encourage, and challenge." (For previous nuggets, visit:?https://eaglesonline.org/weekly-nuggets/nuggets-archives/.)